Terrestrial herb with separate fertile and sterile shoots; perennating by testicular tubers.Sterile shoots to 10 cm tall, 2–4-leaved; leaves semi-erect, conduplicate, up to 30 cm long, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute.Fertile shoots 60–80 cm tall; cauline leaves imbricate, almost completely sheathing, grading into the floral bracts, 6–9 cm long, obtuse to acute.Inflorescence sub-dense, 7–15(30) cm long, 10–20(40)-flowered.Floral bracts ovate to narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate, reaching to the middle of the flowers.Flowers facing down at an angle of 45°, orange-red.Dorsal sepal galeate; galea rounded, 10–16 mm long, 9–12 mm wide and 7–8 mm deep, broadly ovate.Spur horizontal from a broadly conical base, 25–35 mm long, constricted in the middle, the apex sub-clavate, usually upcurved, ascending due to the angle of the flowers.Lateral sepals 12–18 mm long, broadly ovate to broadly oblong, subacute.Petals 11–18 mm long, oblanceolate, acute, erect, falcate.Lip 7–12 mm long, narrowly oblong, acute.Rostellum lateral lobe parallel, 2–3 mm tall.Anther 4–5 mm long.Stigma stipitate.Ovary 2–3 cm long.
